OK I would like u all to find as peice if A4 or Aqto card and fold it in half to A5 and then in half again to eitther A6 or 4 x 6 ish . Be careful always fold corner to corner
when folded though the inner four pages sticks out - when a client complains that the cutting is poor what would u say
Peter

It cant be done MIchael - and the agencies response as usual "thats the printer's problems" - the client said we should have told them when we quoted the job -fun aye
Peter
the problem was really it was only a 1000 copies - any thing over 5000 my production guys would look at it before printing - but we do so many small jobs ( about 500 a month - its cheaper to reprint that put the resource in to check it. The bigger issue is of course should the designer be like architects -

Gosh! It's tricky, Peter. We say on our website that we assume the designer knows what he/she is doing, and we'll just get the job printed. But I know that doesn't always work, so I've set up some PDF preflight rules that warn me about certain things so I can then warn the client (eg small fonts using three or more tints).

But this problem of yours isn't so much technical as artistic, yet you're getting it in the neck as usual. If our clients resubmit the artwork afer I've warned them about a problem, I charge them a small fee (£5 per page): some of them are grateful that I spotted the potential problem, others are incensed that I've charged them for my time [sigh}